In a very large vCenter environment the new-vscclone operation returns a timeout after 5 minutes. When cloning through the GUI it takes appoximately 15 minutes for the wizard to load. The error message is:
new-vscclone : The request channel timed out while waiting for a reply after 00:04:59.9599977. Increase the timeout value passed to the call to Request or increase the
SendTimeout value on the Binding. The time allotted to this operation may have been a portion of a longer timeout.
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+ $cloneID = new-vscclone -virtualMachineName 2012R2-KBBWeb -parentStorageSystemId ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (VSC.VscApi.VscWsApiClient:VscWsApiClient) [New-VscClone], TimeoutException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : destinationHostName MoRef not found,VSC.NewClone
